Presidentiables' Platforms

I know that everybody's very excited for the first automated election here in the Philippines (including me.) But before we grant our vote to a candidate, we should study first their platforms and plans for our country if they win the election. It's our obligation to scrutinize every single detail of every candidate's plans for our country, their track records and everything about them.

Since September when I registered myself in COMELEC, I've been really looking forward on studying every candidate's platform yet I didn't give time for it. Hehe. I admit that I spend most of my time in Facebook. But now, since election day is really near, I tried looking for every candidate's official website and read for their platform.

Right now, I've started reading every candidate's platform. I urge you to do the same.

Here are the official websites of all presidential candidates:

• AQUINO, Benigno Simeon III C.
• DE LOS REYES, John Carlos G.
• ESTRADA EJERCITO, Joseph M.
• GORDON, Richard J.
• MADRIGAL, Jamby A.
• PERLAS, Jesus Nicanor P.
• TEODORO, Gilberto Jr. C.
• VILLANUEVA, Eduardo C.
• VILLAR, Manuel Jr. B.

Aside from reading every candidate's platform from their own sites, I suggest that you read some information about them in their wiki pages and other reliable sites in the Internet since all things that you can read in their officials sites are all "pleasant."

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By the way..
I'm so happy since I learned that I can vote...
Haha.
Recently, I tried to search for my name in the COMELEC's Online Precinct Finder. I didn't find my name on that online database. I tried to contact the COMELEC Office here in Antipolo but the numbers provided in COMELEC's site aren't working. So we decided to go to the COMELEC Office. Then I found out that my name is on the supplemental list. Learning about that, the officers there told me to tell the teacher in the polling precinct to look for my name in the supplemental list when I vote.

I suggest everyone who really wants to be part of Election 2010 to try looking for your names in the Online Precinct Finder (though officials in COMELEC Office insist that the Online Database isn't complete.) (Note: The Online Precinct Finder does not contain information on those voters who have registered themselves last December 2009.) If you can't find your name there, I suggest that you try all means to contact the COMELEC Office in your place by sending them e-mails, calling them by phone or visiting their office personally. Also, try to visit your polling precinct before the election day (especially those who are first-time-voters.)

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Here's an illustration on how you should vote in the automated election.
(Illustration below is owned by its respective copyright owner)

big dissappointment... (cont. 03)

I just went to COMELEC Antipolo...
They couldn't find my name in their database...
Then they looked after my name on the supplementary list...
Luckily, they found my name there...

They told me to tell the teacher to look for my name in the supplementary list when I vote...

YES! I CAN VOTE!

big dissappointment... (cont. 02)

ok... tried to look for the email of the officer in comelec antipolo...

no email address...

hai..

big dissappointment... (cont. 01)

right now, i tried the comelec office in antipolo, there are two contact numbers...
it tried to call both...
both numbers are not working...
hai...

big dissappointment...

i'm really disappointed at COMELEC...

i admit it...
i'm so excited for this coming election since it's my first time to vote and also it's the first time to have an automated election...

i have been reading many materials, webpages and comments about different candidates so that i would know who deserves my vote...

but this time, i tried to look after my precinct number using COMELEC's online precinct finder...
yah... well, i really know where my precinct number is since i have my acknowledgment receipt which was given to me when i registered last september 17, 2009...

i tried to look for my registration details there and here's what i've got:

Your registration details cannot be found in the COMELEC database.

Please make sure that you have entered the correct details.

If you think your registration record should be active, and this SEARCH facility gives you a negative result, please verify with the local COMELEC Office where you are registered. You may also send an e-mail to the regional office or provincial office which has jurisdiction over your city/municipality of registration.
Click the Search button to try again.

what the hell is going on?
i am not able to find my registration details on their database...

i tried to look for my mother and father's registration details..
and i find them...

then i tried to mispell my name...
(how come that would happen? i've been writing my name since long time ago.... i couldn't be wrong in writing my name!)
maybe the data encoder had some typographical error...

it yield only the same result...

by the way, there's a disclaimer on the online precinct finder

DISCLAIMER:

Data is based on the submissions of our field election offices after the 16 November 2009 ERB hearing. If you applied for registration last December 21, 22, 23, 28 and 29, 2009 your record is not yet included here.

but how could that happen?
i register at the COMELEC Office in September 17, 2009

how could this be happening to me?
i was there in the COMELEC office last September...
i was really so excited that day that i brought with me the only photocopy of my birth certificate and a copy of my school id...
actually, we all three are there...
we went there early in the morning that day..
we finished at noontime...
how disappointing...

well, right now, i'm finding some enough strength to call the COMELEC office in Antipolo to tell what happened...

my mother keeps on insisting that we go to the COMELEC office...

if you happened to be very excited for the incoming election. i tell you, try first to look after your registration details in COMELEC's database so that you'll know if you will be able to vote...

here's the link:

ONLINE PRECINCT FINDER

Why Does the Moon Turns Red?

My mother told us one night last holy week that she woke up in the middle of the night and saw the moon in reddish in color...
I remember that I also saw a red moon once when I was in high school.
It was 5:15 to 5:30 in the morning.
I remember its color being red to red-orange.
It was really spooky to see it red..
It is really big as if it's going to fall down on earth.
A very unusual thing to see.

I'm really curious about the red color...
How does the moon turn red?

I tried to search the Web bout this thing..
It turned out that the moon would most likely turn red during lunar eclipse...
And the dust and air pollution here on earth would cause it to be in reddish color.

These sites explains how it happens:
Why does the moon turn red?
Why does the moon turn red during lunar eclipse?